University housing may not be for all? You got that one right! That was a nice attempt to show both sides of the story, but sorry, that doesn’t cut it. The article, University housing can create lifetime friends does a fine job of listing every possible advantage the SIUC dorms could possibly have to offer, but the article, University housing may not be for all mentions only one downfall of the SIUC dorms, and one of the most obvious downfalls at that.

It conveniently forgot to mention any of the other numerous disadvantages to living in the SIUC dorms, such a periods of nightly fire alarms excuse me, multiple fire alarms each night or bomb threats, and the like. It seems to me that with the kind of money we pay to be here, SIUC owes the whole truth to us.

Such omissions of important information are a deception to us all. I think it becomes a rather important issue when students are being dragged out of bed during the wee hours of the night to descend up to 34 flights of stairs on a regular basis.

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I am sure that by now every dorm resident is more than sufficiently experienced in the building-evacuation procedure and future fire drills will not be necessary. If these alarms are being pulled by cruel pranksters, then perhaps there needs to be some sort of minimal security actions taken. Maybe University housing brochures that are passed out in high schools can get away with deceiving people, but once we become students here it is fruitless to attempt to hide the truth.